[KS] Greeks during the Korean War

[Frank Joseph Shulman]

Dear Adam,

Indirectly related to your student's research but, perhaps, still of
some interest to her is the following doctoral dissertation:

STEFANIDIS, Ioannis D.
United States, Great Britain and Greece, 1949-1952: The Problem of
Greek Security and Internal Stability.
Ph.D. in International History, London School of Economics and
Political Science, University of London [United Kingdom], 1989.
Supervised by Alan Sked.
362p.
Abstract published in Index to Theses (London): entry no.43-2927. Also
Dissertation Abstracts International 70, no.10 (2009): section C
[abstract publication number: U048320].
Availability of copies: EThOS [Electronic Theses Online Service of the
British Library] Persistent ID: uk.bl.ethos.244192.

Stefanidis studied "American and British policies in Greece from the
end of the Greek civil war in September 1949 to Field-Marshal
Aleksandros Papagos' accession to power in November 1952, and
illustrated the connection of allied policies with Greek developments
during that period". Included within his dissertation is an
examination of "the evolution and change in U.S. policy towards Greece
from political and economic to military priorities as a consequence of
the impact of the Korean War".

Table of Contents: Introduction: Britain, the United States and the
Greek Crisis of the 1940s. Part One. 1. The Problem of Greek Security
from the End of the Greek Civil War to the Outbreak of the Korean
Conflict. 2. The Post-Korean-War Shift in US Strategic Priorities and
the Association of Greece with NATO [North Atlantic Treaty
Organization] Planning. 3. The Admission of Greece to NATO. Part Two.
4. The Early Post-Civil-War Approach to the Political Problem in
Greece: The Liberal Experiment. 5. The Conservative Shift: The Impact
of the Korean War on Greek Political Developments. 6. The Entry of
Field-Marshal Papagos into Politics and the Stalemate of the 1951
Elections. 7. Full Circle: The Last Government of the Centre and
American Intervention. Part Three. 8. The US Aid Programme in the
Aftermath of the Civil War: Emphasis on Reconstruction. 9. The
Changing Priorities of the US Aid Policy after Korea and Their Impact
on the Greek Programme. 10. The Mutual Security Programme: The
American Way to Economic Stabilization. Conclusions. 7 tables.
Bibliography: pp.359-62.

With best wishes,

Frank

October 3, 2016

P.S. This entry will appear in my forthcoming annotated bibliography,
"The First Century of Doctoral Dissertations on Korea, 1903-2004".

Frank Joseph Shulman
Bibliographer, Editor and Consultant for Reference Publications in Asian Studies
9225 Limestone Place
College Park, Maryland 20740-3943 (U.S.A.)
E-mail: fshulman at umd.edu




On 10/2/16, Adam Bohnet <abohnet at uwo.ca> wrote:
> Dear all:
>
> Since the Cold War in Korea is very much on the minds these days of
> participants in this list-serve, I thought that I might make a vague request
> for scholarly collaboration on a project that my senior undergraduate
> student (who will remain nameless in this list, to protect her privacy) is
> currently pursuing under my direction. The topic, as we have set it, is
> “Greek participation in the Korean War in the context of the Greek Civil
> War,” although we can change the precise thrust according to what documents
> we uncover or fail to uncover. My hope is that my student, who reads modern
> Greek and French (and of course English) but sadly no Russian or Turkish or
> Serbian or Korean (but she is still an undergraduate, and has lots of
> time!),  might be able to explore the explosive left-right conflict in
> Greece in the run up to the Korean War as the context for the Korean War
> itself. If that doesn’t work out, we will rework the topic.
>
> The approach that I have been teaching to my poor student is to bury herself
> into whatever documents she can find and hope for the inspiration of the
> Holy Ghost. However, as many on the list know, I am not a historian of the
> twentieth-century, but of the late Choson. If any of the distinguished
> scholars of the Korean War on this list has ever thought, while reading
> Soviet or Korean or US or other documents, that “such and such an event or
> body of documents would be fascinating and informative, if only I could read
> modern Greek” (or if you do read modern Greek, then “such and such an event
> and set of documents are truly fascinating, but I don’t have time, and
> wouldn’t it be nice if a nice up-and-coming scholar would take a look at
> it”), I would appreciate it very much if you would let me know. Of course, I
> would be sure to have my student thank you if you did so, and acknowledge
> your help in any later publications, although my present strong impression
> is that she would do so without my asking anyway.
>
> Of course, in the end, we will work it out on our own. I beg your
> forgiveness for this open-ended request.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Adam Bohnet
>